SACRAMENTO—After working collaboratively with Caltrans – last year on AB 1549 and this year on AB 980 – agreement has been reached that Caltrans will develop a directive by July 1 to establish Department policy to install conduit for broadband in projects on priority corridors when the project scope includes trenching.
SACRAMENTO— Today Assemblymember Jim Wood ho
MENDOCINO VOICE--After more than two years of legislative discussion, the north coast’s Assemblyman Jim Wood has announced an agreement with Caltrans over the installation of broadband conduit during Caltrans projects. According to a press release from Wood sent last week, Caltrans has agreed to establish a policy by July 1 that would require the agency to install broadband conduit in priority corridors throughout the state when undertaking trenching projects.
SACRAMENTO—Yesterday, two bills authored by Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) to fight escalating prescription drug costs received approval, each in a different committee.
SACRAMENTO--On Tuesday, April 18, AB 315, a bill intended to uncover the mystery of how pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) affect escalating pharmaceutical drug prices, will be presented by its author Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) to the Assembly Business & Professions Committee.
SACRAMENTO—Today, Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) announced that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved the “Digital 299” broadband infrastructure project along California State Route 299. This project, by Inyo Networks, Inc. (Inyo), will receive almost $47 million in funding from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), which is a fund that promotes deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to Californians.
SACRAMENTO—Today, Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) sent a letter to an Assembly budget subcommittee to protest the Governor’s proposal to increase landing fees on commercial fisheries in order to balance the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s $20 million budget deficit.
SACRAMENTO—Today, Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) announced Alena Wall of Santa Rosa as the second Assembly District’s Woman of the Year.
“When Alena’s name came up many times over as leading the fight in Sonoma County to defeat chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease,” said Wood, “I knew she deserved to be recognized.”
